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Forgotten Realms CollectionPool of Radiance - Cursor keys not working in menus(18 posts)(18 posts)
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Posted June 29, 2024
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TheCyberDruid: Hi,

I'm trying to play Pool of Radiance and when I try to create a new character I can't select any other race than Dwarf since my cursor keys don't seem to work. I can see a short flicker on the text when I press a cursor key though. When I load a premade save I can walk around with the cursor keys just fine...

Anybody has an idea how I can fix that?

Edit: Just tried the number pad and it seems like 1 (down) and 7 (up) do the trick. Is that intended?
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HiddenAsbestos: Yep, that's how they're supposed to work - you'll get used to it ! (welcome to 80's gaming ;-) )

btw. You should also be able to use Home / End which are effectively the same as num-7 / 1 (if you have num lock turned off) but a bit more logical / convenient (on a standard keyboard)

pro-tip: Use the numpad for movement in combat as it makes diagonals possible.
No, that is NOT how that is supposed to work. Have you even LOOKED at the number pad? Up and down are NOT supposed to be 7 and 1. It's supposed to be 8 and 2. You really need to pay attention to the post more... because something is WRONG for the 7 and 1 to be the key used.

I've been gaming for a LONG time. I played Pool of Radiance back when it originally was released. This is not how the keys are supposed to be, as shown in the reference pdf.
Posted July 08, 2024
Maybe that's not the way it's supposed to work.... but that's the way that it DOES work in Pool of Radiance - at least in every version I have ever played. And part of the reason is that 8, 2, 4, 6 are already mapped to movement on the map. This is the only game that doesn't have dedicated menu mode for the overmap. So that's why they use the 7 and 1 numpad keys to navigate between different highlighted party members. Otherwise everytime you moved forward or turned around it would change which party member is highlighted.
Posted July 09, 2024
I think menu selection is being confused with movement.
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